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Published by the British Administration of Palestine, this summary emphasizes attempts at impartiality in governing the Mandate. It notes that in 1922, the Jewish community already possessed ‘national’ characteristics, while the Arab community’s composition was sociologically and economically divided and to a large degree impoverished by the war.

During the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian clashes, Arab citizens of Israel clashed with Jewish- Israelis. By comparison in October 2000, similar clashes were longer, more intense with similar underlying causation. Read the context with the findings of the Or Commission Report that investigated them.

Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli SperlingEmory University and Center for Israel Educationkenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Adnan Abu Amer, “Palestinian factions mull next steps after Abbas calls off elections,” Al-Monitor, May 7, 2021. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/05/palestinian-factions-mull-next-steps-after-abbas-calls-elections Anan Abu Baker, “Postponed Palestinian Elections: Causes and Repercussions,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 11, 2021. https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/84509 Associated Press, “World Bank: Lebanon’s crisis […]

Isaac “Bougie” Herzog’s election as Israel’s 11th president on June 2 was such “big” news that it was all but impossible to find on the home page of The Times of Israel a day later. That’s because reporting on a largely ceremonial position was overwhelmed by the end of a two-year wait for the monumental announcement of an eight-party government coalition, including Islamist Arabs and religious Zionist Jews, to unseat the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history.

On June 2, 2021, Isaac Herzog was elected over Miriam Peretz to a seven-year term as Israel’s 11th president. When he takes office in July, succeeding Reuven Rivlin, he will become the first second-generation Israeli president: His father, Chaim, held the position from 1983 to 1993. How was he elected? What was the process to […]

¿Que es la cultura? Un sistema de creencias, valores, costumbres, ideas, comportamientos, símbolos, rasgos, mitos y tradiciones compartidos que los miembros de un grupo definen como propios y utilizan para enfrentarse a su mundo, a los demás, a los extranjeros y extraños, y de alguna manera transmitirlo de generación en generación. Ver Powerpoint

Tras una semana de la guerra de junio de 1967, el Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Israel Abba Eban relató con gran exactitud el porqué Israel utilizó sus fuerzas armadas contra los estados árabes para prevenir la destrucción del estado judío.

The Center for Israel Education’s “Israel: In Context and on the Ground” webinar series May 28, 2021, features a 54-minute discussion among Dr. Ken Stein, Dr. Sara Feuer and Rabbi Mario Karpuj to put the 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas into the larger context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israeli and Palestinian politics, Middle Eastern diplomacy, and media coverage. A bibliography for further study is included.

Esta cronología omite las guerras de 1948 y 1956 y cualquier mención de las tensiones crecientes árabe-israelíes desde 1947 hasta mayo de 1967. Ese contexto es esencial para comprender la aversión apasionada que Egipto y otros estados y poblaciones árabes tenían por Israel antes de la guerra de junio de 1967, así como el nivel […]

Professor Kenneth Stein, Center for Israel Education, Dicembre 2020 Gli eventi e le citazioni qui citati dimostrano l’importanza politica e religiosa, nonché l’attrazione di Gerusalemme per il cristianesimo, l’islam e l’ebraismo, e quando nel tempo ognuno dei tre monoteismi ha controllato parti della città. Altre voci qui riportate fanno notare quando, e/o perché, califfi, chiese, […]

Profesor Kenneth Stein, Center for Israel Education10 de mayo de 2021 Elementos anteriormente presentes en los éxitos de las negociaciones árabe-israelíes  Nueve condiciones previas que permitieron que las negociaciones árabe-israelíes se desarrollaran con éxito en los años 70 y 90 no están presentes hoy en día. Los acuerdos egipcio-israelíes y jordano-israelíes se produjeron porque las […]

Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli SperlingEmory University and Center for Israel Educationkenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Christophe Abi-Nassif, “The Unfolding struggle for political survival in Lebanon,” Middle East Institute, April 27, 2021. https://www.mei.edu/publications/unfolding-struggle-political-survival-lebanon Naama Barak, “In Tel Aviv, amazing Brutalist architecture hides in plain sight,” Israel21c, April 21, 2021. https://www.israel21c.org/in-tel-aviv-amazing-brutalist-architecture-hides-in-plain-sight/   Katherine Bauer and Matthew Levitt, “Hamas Fields […]

Nine pre-conditions that enabled Arab-Israeli negotiations to unfold successfully in the 1970s and 1990s are not present today. Egyptian-Israeli and Jordanian-Israeli agreements occurred because the respective sides wanted them and needed them.

Newsworthy stories unfold in Israel at breathtaking rates. Repeated elections, COVID-19 responses, path-breaking Supreme Court decisions, the Abraham Accords — all are worthy of community discussion and age-appropriate student exploration. Yet few Jewish students and their parents possess sufficient understanding or discussion skills to explain them beyond a passing headline.

Existe uma conexão entre o autogoverno do povo judeu na diáspora, a autonomia política sionista durante o Yishuv e a cultura política israelense atual. Da mesma forma, as origens da democracia israelense remontam desde o período de centenas de anos em que ocorreram as diásporas judaicas, durante a transição ao movimento sionista até a criação do Estado judeu; a partir das aliyot anteriores ao Mandato da Palestina até a consolidação do Estado e desde 1948.

Palestinian legislative elections are scheduled for May 22. Whether or not the vote takes place, finally scheduling elections was nothing short of remarkable. Palestinian politics has been in gridlock, with elections suspended since the terrorist group Hamas won a parliamentary majority in 2006. However, PA President Abbas could still postpone the elections.

Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling Emory University and Center for Israel Education kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Micky Aharonson, “The Israel-Russia-Syria deal: Cost, beneficiaries and future deals,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, March 3, 2021. https://jiss.org.il/en/aharonson-the-israel-russia-syria-deal/  Aida Alami, “Bridging Time, Distance and Distrust with Music: Neta Elkayam, an Israeli singer, plumbs the rich culture of the […]

Subsequent to Israel’s territorial successes from May 1948 forward, UN Mediator Bernadotte is assassinated after suggesting smaller borders for Israel. He does not mention Palestinian Arabs in his interim report.

One of the most striking elements to emerge from the preliminary results is that the current Knesset is going to be much more fragmented. If only eight party lists were elected to the Knesset a year ago, thirteen factions succeeded in entering the parliament in this round.

CIE asked friends and experts in the field of Israel Studies to discuss the challenges and successes of the State of Israel in this past year, and to reflect on the coming year.  Below, we have compiled their thoughts and wishes.  You may broadcast this video during an assembly, use parts of it in classrooms, […]

Ken Stein, 17 de marzo del 2021 Existe una conexión directa entre el autogobierno judío en la diáspora con la autonomía política sionista durante el Yishuv y la cultura política contemporánea de Israel. De la misma manera, los orígenes de la democracia israelí son trazados en los cientos de años de las diásporas judías en […]

Este video de nuestra serie de pizarra interactiva Israel On Board examina lo que sucede después de las elecciones para permitir a Israel formar un gobierno con una mayoría parlamentaria

Este video de nuestra serie de pizarra interactiva Israel On Board examina el sistema electoral de Israel, incluyendo comparaciones con el sistema estadounidense.

(12 de febrero de 1958 – 19 de julio del 2018) https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/Pages/BasicLaws.aspx De acuerdo al Plan de Partición de Palestina de 1947 dos estados, árabe y judío, serían creados del área del Mandato de Palestina. El Plan de Partición también estipuló que cada estado tendría una constitución escrita. Los árabes palestinos y estados árabes rechazaron […]

Israel entered a period of political instability when its governing coalition fell apart in December 2018 over the issue of Haredi military service. The articles, activities and other digital resources below provide insights into how and why Israel’s Knesset elections in April and September 2019 failed to produce a new government, leading to a third election within a year on March 2, 2020. The urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic helped break the political logjam with a unity government featuring a rotation agreement for prime minister between Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, but that government failed to survive into 2021. For the fourth time in less than two years, Israelis are electing a new Knesset on March 23, 2021.

Speaking Feb. 14 to Jewish teen leaders, former Israeli Supreme Court clerk Gal Levy Ben Haim explains the Israeli judiciary and its role in society, using cases about LGBTQ and women’s rights as examples.

Elections, Parliament, Political Culture, Prime Ministers, Parties and the Voting Public Israel has a parliamentary system of government with some unusual features in the elections and the creation of multiparty ruling coalitions, as explained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Click here to see the results of all of the elections with infographics for Israel’s […]

Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling Emory University and Center for Israel Education kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Naama Barak, “A healing prayer brings Israeli, Lebanese singers together,” Israel21c, February, 28, 2021. https://www.israel21c.org/a-healing-prayer-brings-israeli-lebanese-singers-together/ Shaul Bartal, “Now It’s the Turn of the Palestinian Voter,” BESA Center, February 10, 2021. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/palestinian-authority-elections/ Lazar Berman, “Beth Din of Arabia: Jews in Gulf […]

Ken Stein 12 de enero, 2021, presentación virtual, patrocinado por The Temple, Atlanta,GA y CIE. https://youtube.com/watch?v=c4jMHIwvOLI Rabino Peter Berg: [00:00:00] Buenas noches a todos y bienvenidos a nuestro programa. Estamos emocionados de tener a tanta gente aquí con nosotros esta noche para uno de nuestros programas Tamid, uno de nuestros programas de aprendizaje para adultos […]

(1896) Herzl, Teodor. “Kwestia żydowska.” Państwo żydowskie. Tłumaczenie. Sylvie D’Avigdor. 1896. N.p.: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946. Brak paginacji. Druk. „Kwestia żydowska”, Państwo żydowskie, Teodor Herzl  (1896) Herzl, Teodor. “Kwestia żydowska.” Państwo żydowskie. Tłumaczenie. Sylvie D’Avigdor. 1896. N.p.: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946. Brak paginacji. Druk. Początki ruchu syjonistycznego są często uznawane   za jednoznaczne […]